Beowulf's place of death and his lost tomb
I may have found the place of Beowulfs demise and his lost tomb. Erik Fors 2025-11-05 I may have found the place of Beowulfs demise and his lost tomb. Beowulf, king of the Götar, ancestors of the Goths. The Anglo-Saxon epic about his life probably dates, experts guess, from around the 6th century AD, and it was maybe written down in England two hundred y e ars later. Beowulf is min nama.“Beowulf is my name”. In my opinion, but who am I, Beowulf does not mean “bee-wolf”. No, the prefix “beo-” appears about 122 times in the Beowulf text if I remember correctly, and it means a bit of everything, but in one place it means “Light Danes”, or “Beorht-Dena” in Old English. Line 426: “Thus, my question, oh king of the Light-Danes, …” “Brego Beorht-Dena biddan wille, …” Beo thus originates from the Proto-Germanic word *Beorth, corresponding to Bjärt in modern Swedish. The attentive will note a small asterisk * by the word Beorth and this means that linguists assess that the word should have look...